Off-road vehicle enthusiasts are suing the U.S. Forest Service over the bistate sage grouse in Nevada and California, arguing that a protection plan enacted this year could increase fire danger across its rangeland habitat. The bistate sage grouse, proposed for threatened status, lives in a smaller area than the greater sage grouse, which is at the center of a dispute with Trump administration.
President Donald Trump was meeting with his Homeland Security secretary and other officials on Monday to discuss border security issues as a partial government shutdown over his U.S.-Mexico border wall entered Christmas without a clear resolution in sight.
But eight years later, with notches in his belt that include a complete overhaul of Northern Nevada’s economy by attracting the likes of Tesla, Apple, Google and more, landmark education initiatives and funding, and being the first Republican governor to accept Medicaid expansion, Sandoval is confident that he’s accomplished everything he set out to do.
The Nevada Brothel Association announced its formation Friday. The industry’s longtime lobbyist retired in 2015, leaving no unified voice for the state’s brothel owners.
The partial government shutdown could close federal parks and offices and complicate the holiday plans of Las Vegas Valley residents, tourists and public employees. Then again it may not.
Nevada lawmakers appeared to successfully block a “hail mary” pass by Yucca Mountain supporters who tried to slip funding into a stop-gap spending bill, although the final form of the legislation remained in disarray late Thursday.
Though Nevada’s infrastructure received a passing grade in a quadrennial report, there’s still more work to be done, say state officials.
Nevada Gov.-elect Steve Sisolak Wednesday named a veteran state budget worker and the acting division deputy to be the executive branch’s top budget officer.
The Clark County Commission on Tuesday appointed two women to fill vacant seats in the state Assembly, making Nevada the first state in the country with a female-majority Legislature.
With speculation swirling about a possible Cabinet appointment, Sen. Dean Heller, the only Senate Republican to lose re-election, may still have time remaining in his career in public service.
